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May 2024 Auction Ends Thursday, May 30th, 5pm Pacific

Auction closed on 5/30/2024. Final prices include buyers premium.

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Lot #1: Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Richard Millington Synge in 1952 -- Synge Invented Partition Chromatography, a Revolutionary Way to Separate Particles that Unlocked the Mysteries of DNA

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $150,000

Final Price: $187,500
Lot #2: Doctors Christiaan Barnard and Denton Cooley Signed First Day Cover ''Honoring American Blood Donors''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $150

Final Price: Pass
Lot #3: Dr. Denton Cooley Signed Sketch of a Human Heart -- Dr. Cooley Conducted the First Artificial Heart Implantation Surgery

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $200

Final Price: Pass
Lot #4: Erasmus Darwin, Older Brother of Charles Darwin, Autograph Letter Signed

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: Pass
Lot #5: Leonard Kleinrock Signed UCLA Business Card -- Card Lists Kleinrock as Distinguished Professor in the Computer Science Department

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $150

Final Price: Pass
Lot #6: ''Father of the Hydrogen Bomb'', Edward Teller Signed Statement -- ''…The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature…''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $175

Final Price: $219
Lot #7: Chester Arthur Warrant Signed as President, Regarding the Treaty with China to Limit Chinese Immigration

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #8: Chester Arthur Document Signed as President, Sending Condolences to the Emperor of Germany

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #9: Chester Arthur Letter Signed from April 1861, Just Days Into the Civil War -- Arthur Searches for a Location to Organize New York Volunteers

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $600

Final Price: Pass
Lot #10: James Buchanan Document Signed as President, Authorizing Robert McLane to Negotiate the McLane-Ocampo Treaty with Mexico After the Mexican-American War

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,900

Final Price: Pass
Lot #11: James Buchanan Document Signed as President, Putting an End to the Water Witch Affair

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,800

Final Price: Pass
Lot #12: James Buchanan Autograph Letter Signed with Political Content Regarding Presidential Candidates After William Henry Harrison's Death -- Also Includes Buchanan's Free Franked Signature

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #13: James Buchanan Document Signed as President Regarding the U.S. Minister to Brazil

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $900

Final Price: Pass
Lot #14: James Buchanan Autograph Letter Signed as Secretary of State in 1848 -- Buchanan Declines to Endorse a Presidential Candidate, But States ''Our glorious Union depends upon…Democratic principles''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $900

Final Price: Pass
Lot #15: James Buchanan Warrant Signed as President, Calling the Senate Into a Special Session to Debate the ''Kansas Question''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $600

Final Price: Pass
Lot #16: James Buchanan Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...Judicious friends...advise me to accept the mission to England...''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $600

Final Price: $750
Lot #17: Jimmy Carter Heavily Hand-Annotated Speech from His 1976 Presidential Campaign Regarding Defense Spending & the Failures of the Ford Administration

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #18: Jimmy Carter Heavily Hand-Annotated Speech from His 1976 Presidential Campaign -- ''...we are being ruled by special interests...''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #19: Grover Cleveland Lot Regarding the Spanish-American War -- Cleveland Signs an Executive Order in 1896 Establishing U.S. Neutrality & Also Reflects on the Virginius Affair in a Handwritten Statement

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,600

Final Price: Pass
Lot #20: Grover Cleveland Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the 4th of July -- ''American patriotism and our national pride...may be measured by the zeal...with which the Fourth of July is celebrated''

# Bids: 5

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: $734
Lot #21: Calvin Coolidge Signed Presidential Address Regarding the Reduction of Arms After World War I -- From 1926, 15 Years Before the U.S. Was Caught Flat-Footed at Pearl Harbor

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,300

Final Price: Pass
Lot #22: Millard Fillmore Letter Signed as President, Calling the Senate into Session for the Inauguration of His Successor, Franklin Pierce

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $4,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #23: Millard Fillmore Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the Whig Defeat in the 1844 Presidential Election -- ''…dreading to look at the future prospects of my country…our noble leader, Henry Clay…''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $600

Final Price: $750
Lot #24: Millard Fillmore Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the Buffalo Historical Society

# Bids: 3

Min Bid: $600

Final Price: $908
Lot #25: Millard Fillmore Autograph Letter Signed, Setting the Time & Place of the 1839 Whig Convention to Nominate William Henry Harrison for President

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $600

Final Price: $750
Lot #26: Millard Fillmore Signature

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: $313
Lot #27: Ulysses S. Grant Letter of State Signed as President -- Grant Congratulates the President of Peru on His Inauguration

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $3,500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #28: Warren G. Harding Signed & Handwritten 33pp. Speech -- ''We ought to declare an end to bureaucracy, crowned with autocracy…to a government by law and the free activities of a law-abiding people''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $3,500

Final Price: $4,375
Lot #29: Benjamin Harrison Warrant Signed as President, Ratifying the Treaty Between the United States and United Kingdom, Temporarily Halting the Killing of Fur Seals

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #30: Benjamin Harrison Document Signed as President in 1889 Regarding the Johnstown Flood

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $800

Final Price: Pass
Lot #31: Benjamin Harrison Letter Signed Regarding His Grandfather, President William Henry Harrison

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $700

Final Price: Pass
Lot #32: Benjamin Harrison Proclamation Signed as President, Declaring Columbus Day a National Holiday

# Bids: 4

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: $666
Lot #33: Rutherford B. Hayes Autograph Letter Signed, with Exceptional Political Content -- ''…the downward road to anarchy which finds its grave in military depotism seems so easy of descent…''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $2,400

Final Price: Pass
Lot #34: Andrew Johnson Warrant Signed as President, Regarding the Consular Convention Between the United States and Italy

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,500

Final Price: Pass
Lot #35: Lyndon B. Johnson Signed First Edition of ''The Vantage Point'' with an Amusing Inscription to a Man ''Who keeps my ladies looking beautiful'' -- With PSA/DNA COA

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: $313
Lot #36: China From John F. Kennedy's Last Official Dinner on 18 November, 1963, Four Days Before His Assassination

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $900

Final Price: Pass
Lot #37: Lee Harvey Oswald Arrest Document With Fascinating Account of Oswald's Apprehension -- Signed by All Four Arresting Officers -- ''…the officer and the suspect wrestled for the gun…''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: Pass
Lot #38: Dallas Newspaper the Day After John F. Kennedy's Assassination

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $175

Final Price: Pass
Lot #39: Inaugural Issue of ''GEORGE'' Magazine from 1995 Published by John F. Kennedy, Jr.

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $200

Final Price: Pass
Lot #40: Abraham Lincoln Document Signed, Equipping Virginian Daniel Lamb with Arms for ''protection against domestic violence, insurrection, invasion, or rebellion'' -- Lamb Led the Secession of West Virginia

# Bids: 2

Min Bid: $14,000

Final Price: $19,250
Lot #41: Large Oval Albumen Photo of ''Lincoln & Son'' Depicting Abraham Lincoln and His Son Tad -- Uncommonly Large Image Measures 5.5'' x 7.75''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: Pass
Lot #42: James Madison and James Monroe Signed Ship's Papers

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #43: William McKinley Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I will pass the resolution in the House this morning...''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $625
Lot #44: Silk Flag from William McKinley's 1896 Presidential Campaign

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: $375
Lot #45: James Monroe Letter Signed During the War of 1812 -- As Secretary of State, Monroe Writes About Tripoli During Period of Strained Relations Before the Second Barbary War

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $2,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #46: James Monroe Handwritten Manuscript Describing His Time as Minister to France -- ''…I came here and found that doubts existed...of the sincerity of our friendship for France…''

# Bids: 2

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: $1,375
Lot #47: James Monroe Signed Act, Passed on the Eve of War in 1812 -- Calling on Private Armed Vessels to Defend the U.S.: ''…You are to pay the strictest regard to the rights of neutral powers…''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $900

Final Price: Pass
Lot #48: Michelle Obama Signed Deluxe Edition of ''Becoming''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $275

Final Price: $344
Lot #49: Theodore Roosevelt Bronze Plaquette by Barber & Morgan Honoring Roosevelt's ''Great White Fleet''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $175

Final Price: Pass
Lot #50: William Howard Taft Signed Photo as Supreme Court Chief Justice -- Measures 9.375'' x 12.875''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: Pass
Lot #51: Incredible Zachary Taylor Autograph Letter Signed from May 1846 After Crossing the Rio Grande in the Mexican-American War -- ''…We are now all encamped on the Mexican soil without firing a gun…''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $19,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #52: Zachary Taylor Letter Signed in 1848 Shortly Before His Nomination for President -- ''…If honored by election to the Presidency I will strive to execute with fidelity the trust reposed in me…''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $4,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #53: Harry Truman Signed Press Release of His Farewell Speech to the American People on 12 January 1953 -- ''…He can't pass the buck to anybody…''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $3,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #54: Harry Truman Signed Press Release of His Speech at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in March 1952 -- Likely Signed as President

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $750

Final Price: Pass
Lot #55: John Tyler Confidential Autograph Letter Signed Regarding ''the Chinese Treaty'' -- Likely Written as President Regarding the Treaty of Wanghia

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $3,900

Final Price: Pass
Lot #56: John Tyler Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the Bank War in 1834 -- ''…whether the Bank of the U. States has resorted to any course of measures from a spirit of hostility to the state Bankers…''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $3,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #57: John Tyler Warrant Signed as President, Regarding a Letter to the King of France

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $800

Final Price: Pass
Lot #58: John Tyler Warrant Signed as President, Ordering the Appointment of Washington Irving as U.S. Ambassador to Spain

# Bids: 2

Min Bid: $600

Final Price: $825
Lot #59: Martin Van Buren Signature

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: Pass
Lot #60: George Washington Signed Three-Language Ship's Papers -- Signed as President in 1796

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $12,000

Final Price: $15,000
Lot #61: George Washington Handwriting -- Encapsulated by CAG

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: $375
Lot #62: Woodrow Wilson Speech Draft, Hand-Annotated as President -- Wilson Writes Fiery Rhetoric Regarding the Evils of Germany During WWI -- ''…Against the horror of military conquest…''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $2,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #63: Benito Mussolini Document Signed as Prime Minister of Italy

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $450

Final Price: Pass
Lot #64: Margaret Thatcher Personally Owned China -- Sugar Bowl in a Navy Blue Floral Pattern, With Matching Gold-Colored Spoon

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $250

Final Price: $313
Lot #65: Margaret Thatcher Personally Owned China -- Tea Cup & Saucer in a Navy Blue Floral Pattern

# Bids: 5

Min Bid: $200

Final Price: $334
Lot #66: Large 12'' x 16'' Photograph of Margaret Thatcher, Taken by Terence Donovan in 1995

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $200

Final Price: Pass
Lot #67: 1833 Force Declaration of Independence From Original Copper Plate -- Still Within ''American Archives''

# Bids: 2

Min Bid: $16,000

Final Price: $22,000
Lot #68: CSA Secretary of War John C. Breckinridge Autograph Letter Signed -- ''…I trust we shall be saved from the horrors of Sectionalism…''

# Bids: 2

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: $125
Lot #69: Four 1864 Confederate War Bond Coupons -- Each for $30 Printed by Archer

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #70: Jefferson Davis Signature -- With PSA/DNA COA

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $600

Final Price: Pass
Lot #71: Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman Signed Memoirs

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $3,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #72: WWII Letter From a Prisoner at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp From 1943 -- With Auschwitz Censor Stamp and Postmark

# Bids: 2

Min Bid: $500

Final Price: $688
Lot #73: Paul Tibbets Signed Statement Regarding Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima During World War II -- ''…I was shot in the ass with confidence…''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $125

Final Price: Pass
Lot #74: Nuremberg Lawyer Ben Ferencz Signed 10'' x 8'' Photo

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #75: Signature of Dr. Michihiko Hachiya, the Japanese Doctor Who Wrote a Diary of the Hiroshima Bombing

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $150

Final Price: Pass
Lot #76: Douglas MacArthur Letter Signed as Supreme Commander in Japan, Dated 1950 -- MacArthur Writes a Detailed 4pp. Letter on Why He Forbade Margaret Sanger from Speaking to the Japanese About Birth Control

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $1,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #77: Enola Gay Pilot Paul Tibbets Signed Model of the B-29 Bomber

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: $500
Lot #78: Dutch Van Kirk Autograph Statement Signed on a Photo of the Enola Gay -- ''the killing stopped''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: Pass
Lot #79: Civil Rights Icon Ralph David Abernathy Handwritten Quote Signed -- ''It is in you - Do it!!!…Ralph David Abernathy'' -- With PSA/DNA COA

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $200

Final Price: Pass
Lot #80: Signed Self-Portrait of Gene E. Herrick, the Civil Rights Photographer Who Captured Iconic Images of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $100

Final Price: Pass
Lot #82: 19th Century Cabinet Photo of Two Native American Women

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $175

Final Price: Pass
Lot #83: Scarce 1500 Third German Edition of ''Nuremberg Chronicle'' & the First Pirated German Edition -- Complete with Double Page Map of Europe

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $15,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #84: Grammy Nomination for Best Spoken Word Recording, Awarded to Poet Rod McKuen in 1974 for ''Autumn''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $225

Final Price: $281
Lot #85: Jimi Hendrix Signed Matted Artwork of Himself -- Uninscribed and with Roger Epperson COA

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $6,000

Final Price: $7,500
Lot #86: Karl Ferris Signed Jimi Hendrix ''Are you Experienced'' Album Cover -- Ferris' Psychedelic Style Defined the Aesthetic of the 1960s

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $200

Final Price: Pass
Lot #87: Alicia Keys Personally Owned Funky Brown Floppy Hat -- With a COA From Keys

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $200

Final Price: $250
Lot #88: Don McLean Signed ''American Pie'' Album -- With Roger Epperson COA

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $325

Final Price: Pass
Lot #89: Nirvana's ''Nevermind'' LP Record Album, with a Signed Description by Art Director Robert Fisher Regarding the Famous Cover Artwork

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: Pass
Lot #90: ''Straight Outta Compton'' LP Record Album Signed by the Photographer of the Iconic Photo with Essay on That Shot -- ''The revolver…was real''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $175

Final Price: Pass
Lot #91: Louis Armstrong Signed Program -- Also Signed by His Band Members

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $275

Final Price: Pass
Lot #92: Signature of Jazz Musician Brother Matthew M. Brown

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: Pass
Lot #93: Sheldon Harnick Signed 8.5'' x 11'' Photo with Autograph Musical Quotation from ''Fiddler on the Roof'' for ''Sunrise, Sunset'' -- With PSA/DNA COA

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $300

Final Price: Pass
Lot #94: Lot of 3 Items Signed by Frank Sinatra -- Includes 8'' x 9.5'' Signed Photo, Frank's Personally Owned & Signed Air Travel Card from 1941-42 & Signed Note Written to Himself

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $2,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #95: Stephen Sondheim Letter Signed -- ''…my life is simply too busy…''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $125

Final Price: $156
Lot #96: Stephen Sondheim Letter Signed -- ''…I'm a fancier of pure rhymes…''

# Bids: 4

Min Bid: $125

Final Price: $231
Lot #97: Stephen Sondheim Letter Signed -- ''…I'm up against two deadlines and in previews with a show…''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $125

Final Price: $156
Lot #98: Stephen Sondheim Letter Signed -- ''…as soon as I finish the show I've been endlessly working on…''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $125

Final Price: $156
Lot #99: Original Disneyland Grand Canyon Diorama Silk-Screened Park Attraction Poster

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $3,000

Final Price: Pass
Lot #100: Original Disneyland Silk-Screened Park Attraction Poster for ''Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln''

# Bids: 0

Min Bid: $400

Final Price: Pass
Lot #101: Original Disneyland Silk-Screened Park Attraction Poster for ''Adventure Thru Inner Space''

# Bids: 1

Min Bid: $1,500

Final Price: $1,875

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